KARACHI: The 10 representatives of East Pakistani settlers who were taken to Guddu Barrage area to select new land of their choice returned disappointed yesterday.

They visited four places in Jacobabad district which are under the command of Guddu Barrage, in the company of an official of the West Pakistan Agricultural Development Corporation.

Jamal Khan, who led the settlers’ team, said on his return last evening that the land shown to them was not suitable for them.

He said the land, at all the four places, was not worth rice cultivation and it would be again a problem for them.

Jamal Khan said that they had apprised the official who accompanied them of their decision about the land shown to them. He hoped that they would be shown some other land which was suitable for cultivation by them.

The Director of Barrages, Hyderabad, could not be contacted last night. The settlers’ representatives spent two days to see the lands offered to them for their selection.

Meanwhile, the settlers camping at Malir, who have been living on charity after stoppage of food supply by the Karachi authorities, are once again faced with a critical situation.

The Karachi authorities discontinued supply of food and other amenities on May 4, and since then they had been making both ends meet through the generosity of various social welfare organisations and philanthropists.

But these organisations have also suspended relief, due to which the settlers had no meals for the last two days.—Correspondent
Ayub joins ML

RAWALPINDI: President Ayub Khan today (May 22) formally associated himself with the Conventionist Muslim League by becoming a two-anna member of the party.

The Chief Organiser and the two provincial organisers of the party, along with Cabinet Ministers, called on the President this evening to request him to formally join the party.—Correspondent